Monday Morning Musing....at twilight

December 21, 2020

Seattle, WA

The day did not dawn, nor did it break. Instead it crept in, gray and soaking, and did not change before it left. It is twilight all day before the longest of nights.

Yesterday the Church heard the words of Mary's Song, the Magnificat. It is a song of resistance and rebellion....against powers and principalities. It is a song of partnership with God.

Here is an Asian feminist theologian's version:

Prophesy

All the broken hearts

shall rejoice;

all those who are heavy laden,

whose eyes are tired

and do not see,

shall be lifted up

to meet with

the motherly healer.

The battered souls and bodies

shall be healed;

the hungry

shall be fed;

the imprisoned

shall be free;

all her earthly children

shall regain joy

in the reign

of the just and loving one

coming for you

coming for me

in this time

in this world.

~Sun Ai Lee Park